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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Coddled (0.00896 detik)
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: coddled
coddled
adj : treated with excessive indulgence;
“pampered from earliest
childhood, he believed the world had been invented for
his entertainment” [syn:
pampered,
spoiled]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Coddled
Coddle
\Cod"dle\ (k[o^]d"d'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Coddled
(-d'ld); p. pr. & vb. n.
Coddling (-dl[i^]ng).] [Cf.
Prov. E. caddle to coax, spoil, fondle, and
Cade, a. & v.
t.] [Written also
codle.]
1. To parboil, or soften by boiling.
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It [the guava fruit] may be coddled. --Dampier.
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2. To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper.
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How many of our English princes have been coddled at
home by their fond papas and mammas! --Thackeray.
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He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation.
--Southey.
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